How to Pronounce AA Lesson Excerpt American English Pronunciation
this video contains excerpts from a
pronunciation lesson I had with my
friend from Turkey in this particular
video we are working on the sound ah as
in bat when he was first learning the
sound ah it felt very awkward and
overdone for him to drop his jaw so much
he was much more comfortable keeping it
about here much more neutral ah but this
sound has a really large opening here in
the jaw after he got more comfortable
opening his mouth he was also spreading
his mouth ah ah and making it this big
wide rectangle which is also not correct
it’s not so much stretched this way as
dropped here with the tongue going up
and then down
ah ah in this section we’re talking of
the pronunciation of the word capped
capped in this context meaning the apex
of something for example I capped my
career with a concert in Carnegie Hall
capped when he was not dropping his jaw
ah and was keeping it kept it sounded
like kept which is past tense keep as in
I kept my cell phone in my purse capped
kept ah ah capped kept kept alive ah
cab yep it’s ad do you see my jaw drops
and my tongue ah yeah cab so your mouth
minced open more cat feeling yeah but
when you open it don’t spread your mouth
sideways ah okay
I want you to just say ah ah ah
that was better do it again ah that was
good now that feels kind of stupid right
but that’s the sound in English captain
cat kept at okay capped kept
was good here we are talking about the
word elaborate ah and elaborate Allah
elaborate ah love great yeah do just ah
ah that is very good and I hotel that
your tongue is doing your I learn good
you know ending here when he first says
the word spectacular watch how little
movement there is in the mouth it is
very much like this and on the second
one see how much he drops his jaw and
that is correct if not spectacular
spectacular spectacular